Therese Bentzon

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Therese (Thérèse) Bentzon is the pseudonym of Marie Thérèse Blanc (1840-1907), a French journalist, essayist, and novelist, for many years on the staff of the Revue des Deux Mondes. She was born at Seine-Port, traveled widely in the United States, and wrote wisely of American literature and social conditions. Among her essays are Littérature et mœurs étrangères (1882) and Les nouveaux romanciers américains (1885). Her novels include:

  • La vocation de Louise (1873)
  • Sang mêlé (1875)
  • Un remords (1878)
  • Yette, histoire d'une jeune Créole (1880; 1882)
  • Yvonne (1881)
  • Tony (1884), crowned by the French Academy
  • Contes de tous les pays (1890)
  • Jacqueline (1893)
  • Une double épreuve (1896)
  • Au dessus de l'abime (1905)

She also wrote Nouvelle France et Nouvelle Angleterre: Notes de Voyage (1899); Choses et gens d'Amérique, Questions Americaines, and Femmes d' Amérique, and translated works by Dickens, Bret Harte, Ouida, Aldrich, and other novelists.